The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2015
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Ronald Tatsuji Kawai, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
John Bonet, Placentia, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Example folding door thrust reversers for aircraft engines are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a nacelle of a turbofan engine, where a fan duct is defined between the nacelle and a core of the turbofan engine. The example apparatus includes an opening in the nacelle between an outside of the nacelle and the fan duct and an inner door and an outer door disposed within the opening and pivotably coupled to the nacelle along aft edges thereof. The example inner and outer doors are pivotable between a first position in which the inner door and the outer door are disposed within the opening and oriented substantially parallel to each other, and a second position in which the inner door is disposed in the fan duct and oriented substantially perpendicular to an outer surface of the core and the outer door extends outward from the nacelle.